This game is too bloody adictive. Playing an Ironman game where I won the hundred years war against France at the start and formed a personal union with them. I then used them as a big blue bully to form a personal union with Austria a decade later.

Now I have the rest of the HRE caught in a superpower pincer manoeuvre.

@thefilthandthefury by far the easiest, much more so than even CK2. They have cleaned up the interface, the tutorial is half-decent, and the deliberate missions/mid-term goals give you some welcome guidance what you can do.

The only negative thing I can say is that I prefer CK's art style - portraits, event screens, etc.

Ah great, good to hear! Making it easier is definitely a welcome thing for me. As I say, I eventually 'got' CK2 but it did take a while and I'm sure I'm still missing out on some elements and features.

I love the fact that you can just get on a create your own little world and stories without even having to worry about "winning". I've just got my own little corner of Greece on the go and am merrily setting about trying to reignite the glory of Athens, oblivious to the carnage and Papal chaos of Europe.

Bought this game after rinsing Civ V to death - first Paradox game I've tried too.

I'm finding it really hard to get my head around (admittedly I've only tried the first few tutorials) - are the tutorials worth persevering with or should I jump straight into a game and attempt to pick it up?

There's an absolute ton going on on-screen and it's quite overwhelming for a newbie such as myself - any tips for people fresh to Paradox games?

Problem I found with Paradox tutorials is not that they don't give you enough information, but rather of the whole deluge of information they give you, they don't point out which bits of it are important.

Just started playing this. The tutorials are actually pretty decent, although there are still a few areas I'm not sure about. Still, compared to Crusader Kings 2 it's a breeze to get into a game where you have an idea what to do.

Are people still enjoying this? I bought it at launch but couldn't play for a while due to work but have recently just got back into this and also bought the Conquest of Paradise DLC that came out this week, which allows random new world generation and colonial nations.

I find it a really therapeutic game to play. Sure it can be stressful juggling all the internal politics, military, religion, wars, etc but it makes a nice change from something like Battlefield!

Has anyone got a good guide for beginners for this. I got into CK2 by playing as Scotland and I just made up my own goal of getting as much land in Ireland and Wales as possible but ended up with my Kingdom falling apart due to me being a tyrant

Played CK2 and EU3 so felt confident enough to skip the tutorials but still some figuring out as I went along (mostly about inter-state relations).

And finally... can I just kill all the astronomers? Number one cause of drop in stability, a comet sighting. Seriously? I can wage global war, bring my empire to the edge of financial and societal ruin but it's a rock flying through the sky that loses me stability.

The tutorial really is half decent. It might not teach you everything but it shows you enough to get started and then learn as you play.

I've started as Venice and enjoy improving ny trade empire. I don't really enjoy the military side of these games so looking to expand through influence rather than military might. Already managed to make annex a few vassals by improving relations, but the major powers around me all seem to hate me for my republican tradition...